>Well, you can't know everything. Not to get too philisophical, absolute

To listen to my wife, I can't know _anything_...

Seriously, though, think about what the average FPW developer knew in 1994: DOS, maybe a Novell logon, FoxPro/Windows, multi-user access, perhaps one of the Kits (LCK, CK, whatever). The advanced developers were hacking an SCX and using GENSCRNX and writing good xplat stuff.

Nowadays, your average VFP developer is messing with much of the following: NT (permissions? security? RAS?), ODBC, object oriented programming, databases (sorta "real" with the DBC), true metadata, ActiveX controls, SQL/Server, a billion web technologies that change every month, the WinAPI, blah blah blah.

So.... I've long given up "knowing everything." Instead, I offer to my customers that (1) I know how to _learn_ anything, since I've had to relearn my programming language three or four times, and (2) I know where to properly find out stuff that I don't know - instead of just reading the help file and flailing away until it "appears" to work...

For the right customer, these two attributes are pretty valuable.

Whil